Foreshortening and Other Concerns

There's a lot of weird stuff going on in this drawing, but I think it was important to try and tackle this pose. It is strange how the proportions of a figure change when they shift positions. When learning to draw accurately, you are taught to ignore what you "know" and rely more on what you see. This can cause a bit of a conflict when your brain is attempting to correct your drawing.

I wish I had more time to correct some of the strange proportions, work on the face, fill in the hair and finish the legs (maybe add in the little dog she is looking at in the original photo) - but that is the nature of these exercises. I have only the time I am given to capture what is in front of me. Maybe this photo will come up again. More likely, I will get to use what I learned on a similar pose.

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Drawloween (at my own pace) - Pumpkins

Inktober Day 3 - "Bait"

Old school pen and ink. I haven't used a crow quill pen since high school - and, even then, I remember struggling to get it to work. This time, I thought I would try to create something using only cross-hatching. The prompt word today is "bait". This word took me into a lot of different ideas, but the one I ultimately landed on is based on the will-o-wisp. In my head, I imagined glowing orbs in front of a copse of swamp trees all created with layers of cross-hatching. Things had to be scaled back a bit. There are still two trees in the background if you look hard enough. Success? Sort of. It forced me to use a different kind of pen and, in doing so, made me want to keep going and get better with it.

The World of the Small

Drawing and painting small objects is a lot of fun. There are a lot of details that one doesn't really pick up on when an object is viewed from afar. Small things, by virtue of their size, are always viewed this way. As far as the painting itself, it was fun to get some use out of my tiny brushes.

Rainbow Bisque

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